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- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Accounts of Shannon Free Airport Development Company (9 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Is it correct that the internal audit function has been outsourced?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Accounts of Shannon Free Airport Development Company (9 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: What was the name of the company?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Accounts of Shannon Free Airport Development Company (9 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Could both the Department and Shannon Development let us have whatever correspondence they received on the matter just discussed? We have a note – note 10 in the accounts - on the €1 million in restructuring costs. Could Mr. Pakey provide some details on the companies involved?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Accounts of Shannon Free Airport Development Company (9 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: We wish to have a copy in writing. Could Mr. Pakey provide a few lines on each property, for example, how long it is vacant, how long parcels of land are available and the company’s intentions on the properties?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Accounts of Shannon Free Airport Development Company (9 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: I thank the witnesses for attending. I propose that we do not dispose of the accounts for 2013 until such time as we receive the replies from the agency.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (15 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an appeal for a Student Universal Support Ireland grant in respect of a person (details supplied) will be expedited in view of the fact that the first term is now nearly over. [39326/14]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: We will now go back to public session. We will deal with our meeting on 9 October 2014. Are those minutes agreed? Agreed. Turning to matters arising from the minutes, are any matters arising? No. Turning to correspondence received since our meeting on 9 October 2014. Item 3B.1 is correspondence from the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, on correspondence from...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Yes. Item 3.C is correspondence relevant to today's meeting. Item 3C.1 is correspondence received 14 October 2014 from Mr. Tom Moran, Secretary General of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine with briefing material for today's meeting to be noted and published. Item 3C.2 is correspondence received 15 October 2014 from Mr. Tom Moran, Secretary General of the Department of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: I will ask Mr. Andrew Harkness from the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General to respond.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: The Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General certifies the accounts and they go to the Department and the Department puts them before the House-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Maybe we should write-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Is it possible to get an idea from the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of the number of smaller agencies of the State that are to be audited by it that are not yet audited.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: There are statements in today's file, for example, the fishery harbour centres financial statements 31 December 2007, which were signed off on 23 December 2011. There are serious issues therein in the context of what is before us today. If we could get an overview of the number of agencies that are way behind or in which there are difficulties and for which accounts have not been audited...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Could we bring them in on that date?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Deputy Murphy might not be here. He might be gone like Deputy Harris.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: We will raise the issue with the authority and we can arrange the meeting next week. We will have a reply next week and then we can decide the date when we see when they are available.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: We referred correspondence from residents regarding the Tank Field in Cork.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: I would like to get the file out because of the issues that have been raised, even in recent times, which relate to the spending of taxpayers' money, the ownership of the site and so on. Because it remains unresolved, we need a comprehensive response from the Department of Education and Skills or we need to invite officials in to deal with the issues specific to that school development.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: We have agreed our agenda for 23 October, which is the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board accounts for 2012.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: I remind members to turn off their mobile telephones, as they interfere with sound quality in the transmission of the meeting. I advise witnesses that they are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they are to give this committee. If they are directed by the committee to cease giving evidence in relation to a particular matter and they continue to do so, they are...